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Clare

Thanks for the websites on Jarry and Ubu. 

Has anyone else out there read Les Anormaux?

Thanks

Stuart

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Stuart says

>suggest that it describes someone who by their grotesque, absurd or cruel
>character resembles 'Ubu roi' (p. 26n. 20). Any idea who this person was,
>and if they were really a king?

Ubu Roi is a famous play written by the surrealist Alfred Jarry - check out
http://www.ukans.edu/~sma/almanac/ubutxt.htm  and
             http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/jarry.htm for some details.

Clare

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